Using Smartphones for Indoor Fire Evacuation

Lin, Ching‐Yuan; Chuang, Ying-Ji; Hsiao, Gary Li-Kai

doi:10.3390/ijerph19106061

Cited by 5 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 35 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Concerning drills, more than 57% of respondents indicated they had never participated in one. Regarding the emerging technology in this field, Kuo et al [32] proposed using a smartphone voice-guided evacuation system to provide alternative evacuation routes for civilians trapped at a fire scene. This could be a possible solution to be adopted in HEI buildings since, in a real scenario, smoke reduces the visibility of emergency direction signs, making them ineffective in providing appropriate guidance along evacuation routes in a fire situation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

General Knowledge and Attitudes about Safety and Emergency Evacuation: The Case of a Higher Education Institution

Carvalhais,

Dias,

Costa

et al. 2023

Safety

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The implementation of a safety culture and awareness of emergency issues in buildings has been growing in more developed societies. It is essential that all occupants know how to act in an emergency situation, particularly during an emergency evacuation. In higher education institutions (HEIs), which annually host not only their many employees, but also national and international students, it is essential to know and understand the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that the academic community demonstrates in this matter. This study aimed to characterize the perception of occupants regarding safety, specifically in the emergency evacuation phase, within the academic community of an HEI. In this observational cross-sectional study, data on general knowledge and attitudes regarding safety and actions during emergency situations were collected through an anonymous questionnaire targeting students, faculty, and non-teaching staff, which was sent via institutional email. Valid responses were received from 392 participants and then scored and assessed on different domains. The results obtained showed that, despite a reasonable average regarding the general level of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of the occupants on the subject, the community falls somewhat short in terms of training. It is noteworthy that approximately 64% of the sample has never received awareness or training related to emergency evacuation, and around 68% are unaware of the location of their institution’s meeting/gathering point. Finally, by identifying the most common gaps, namely the training dimension, some simple measures could be improved, such as the dissemination of safety instructions accessible through QR codes placed in strategic locations or even conducting small drills during class sessions, as well as learning with simulation concerning different scenarios of emergency.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

General Knowledge and Attitudes about Safety and Emergency Evacuation: The Case of a Higher Education Institution

Carvalhais,

Dias,

Costa

et al. 2023

Safety

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Development and implementation of more efficient targeted safety evacuation could significantly reduce lives and property losses in disasters. Targeted safety evacuation studies have been conducted in natural disasters and man-made/humanistic disasters, including fires [3], earthquakes [8,100,104], landslides [175], tsunamis [61], floods [63], hurricanes [176], typhoons [177], tornados [178], transportation accidents The research on the fire evacuation environment has gradually shifted from the relatively simple mass venues to marine engineering and high-rise buildings with complex structures and difficult evacuation. With the development of the construction industry, the research on fire evacuation to ensure personal safety should also keep pace with the times.…”

Section: Disaster Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Development and implementation of more efficient targeted safety evacuation could significantly reduce lives and property losses in disasters. Targeted safety evacuation studies have been conducted in natural disasters and man-made/humanistic disasters, including fires [3], earthquakes [8,100,104], landslides [175], tsunamis [61], floods [63], hurricanes [176], typhoons [177], tornados [178], transportation accidents studies have been conducted in natural disasters and man-made/humanistic disasters, including fires [3], earthquakes [8,100,104], landslides [175], tsunamis [61], floods [63], hurricanes [176], typhoons [177], tornados [178], transportation accidents [18,29,42,67,69,108,145,152], and terrorist attacks [179]. In the scientific research on disaster risk reduction, disasters could be classified into three types: natural disasters, man-made/humanistic disasters, and industrial/technological disasters.…”

Section: Disaster Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scientometric Research on Applications and Advances of Fire Safety Evacuation in Buildings

Yang

Yao

2023

Fire

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Fire safety evacuation has been used in numerous different kinds of buildings. This research conducts a scientometric review of fire safety evacuation applications and advances in the buildings to clarify the research trends of fire evacuation in the future and provide guidance for relevant research. A total of 3312 journals and conference proceedings were analyzed through different dimensions. The result proves that evacuation environments concentrate mainly on residential building, commercial building, school, and railway station. The characteristics of the evacuee have been gradually refined in recent years, including children, the elderly, patients, and vulnerable groups. The main experimental approaches of fire safety evacuation are evacuation drills, site records, and VR/AR experiments. The crowd behavior models mainly consist of six types: a cellular automata model, a social force model, a lattice gas model, a game-theoretic model, an animal agent-based model, and a computer agent-based model. The analysis results in the theoretical method are becoming gradually closer to the behavioral characteristics and movement data of the crowd during the actual evacuation with improvements of practical considerations. The study of evacuation drills, disaster rescue, emergencies, and other external environmental factors will become the forefront of future research, and subway stations, airports, high-rise building, and other personnel places will be the focus of the study of crowd evacuation.

show abstract

Development and Implementation of a Smartphone Application for Tsunami Evacuation

Chenxi

Takabatake

Esteban

et al. 2023

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Using Smartphones for Indoor Fire Evacuation

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

General Knowledge and Attitudes about Safety and Emergency Evacuation: The Case of a Higher Education Institution

General Knowledge and Attitudes about Safety and Emergency Evacuation: The Case of a Higher Education Institution

A Scientometric Research on Applications and Advances of Fire Safety Evacuation in Buildings

Development and Implementation of a Smartphone Application for Tsunami Evacuation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About